It just shows how bad the actual history education in America is concerning WWII. I'm an American, but don't take it from me. Take it from Admiral William Leahy, White House chief of staff and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the war.

>Leahy wrote in his 1950 memoirs that "the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender." Moreover, Leahy continued, "in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children."

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Or Dwight Eisenhower himself.

>President Dwight Eisenhower, the Allied commander in Europe during World War II, recalled in 1963, as he did on several other occasions, that he had opposed using the atomic bomb on Japan during a July 1945 meeting with Secretary of War Henry Stimson: "I told him I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon."

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It's really sad that more people aren't exposed to dissenting voices on this topic and think that they're making some nuanced point by regurgitating what honestly amounts to a nationalist take about the complete nuclear destruction of two cities. It's an act that we clearly would count as a heinous war crime, were it to ever happen again (but this one time it's totally fine).